Law 30 Crossword

2. assisting someone to commit a criminal offence
4. legal services paid for by taxpayers, available to persons unable to afford a lawyer
7. denying something, as on exculpatory evidence clears the defendant of guilt
14. a latin phrase meaning "a wrongful deed" the physical or guilty act
15. a postponement of court business
18. to make an act completely legal by removing it from the criminal code
19. the act of deliberately choosing to ignore certain facts or information
20. the body of public law that determines actions to be crimes
21. in criminal law, actual imprisonment or physical detention
24. to keep the jury together and isolated until it reaches a verdict
25. to pass a proposed law into legislation

1. a line of people formed by police for identification
3. the reason for committing a certain act
5. encouraging or urging another person to commit a crime
6. to initiate and carry out legal action
8. a person who documents court proceedings
9. a latin phrase meaning "a guilty mind" the mental element of ones criminal actions
10. intentional homicide (killing of another person)
11. a document in which the accused agrees to appear in court as required
12. to make behaviour that was illegal punishable only by fines
13. an agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act
16. the person charged with an offence
17. to change existing legislation (laws)
22. the police procedure in which officers look for evidence that may be used in court
23. to detain a person legally and to charge him/her with a criminal offence